20 years of precaution has taught us to abandon science-based solutions.
Tag: Glyphosate
How to Kill Dialogue
Pt 3 of the Insignificant Trilogy. Green activists are controlling policy debates by denying other voices in stakeholder dialogue.
Memoirs of a Monsanto Shill
How I discovered the activists and Greens needed me to be their face of evil. Why I decided to stand with Monsanto.
GlyphoSafe: Eight points for European Commissioner Andriukaitis on Glyphosate
Here is how Commissioner Andriukaitis needs to act following ECHA’s decision that glyphosate is safe!
Disrupting the Disruptors: Restructuring in the Activist World
Things are not looking too rosy for the big NGOs. Being crowded out of a market they had established, losing touch with online communities and grassroots support, having gurus steal their issues, seeing the nature of the game in Brussels change …
The Risk-Monger’s Top 10 Worst Moments of 2016: The Year of Stupid!
My Top 10 Stupidest Moments of 2016. How I wish 2017 would be reasonable.
Is IARC Fit for Purpose?
IARC has continued to slide into an crisis of legitimacy. Recent unethical, biased behaviour has left the agency no longer fit for purpose.
Glyphosate: How to fix IARC
My solution to fix IARC is to pull its funding. As I publish this, the US is proposing to do just that!
IARC’s Glyphosate Debacle: Sinking deeper into their pit of hypocrisy
IARC says they are transparent – they are not! They say their scientists have no conflicts of interest – they do! They say their scientific methodology is the strongest – no one else agrees. This is hypocrisy!
Getting lost with a bad compass: Precaution and pesticides
Using precaution as an impulse is like using a broken compass: you’ll never actually know how lost you are. Why precaution does not work for pesticides.
How to Deal with Stupid: Part 1/10 – Defining Stupid
Stupid is growing today via social media fear campaigns. How can we deal with it? Step 1: Define it
IARC’s Disgrace: How Low Can Activist Science Go?
We know that IARC’s political bias, non-transparency and conflict of interest on glyphosate were bad. But according to a recent publication, it is nothing compared to how bad their activist science was.
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